Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time Flashcards
(16 cards)
Who was this novel written by?
Mark Haddon
What type of question do you want to focus on?
Relationship, conflict moment
What two characters are you focusing on?
Ed and Christopher
What theme links to your question?
Importance and fragility of trust
What does your theme especially link back to?
Christopher being on the spectrum
Christopher has..
limited emotional and social capacity due to being on the spectrum
What moment/conflict are you focusing on?
Christopher finding the letters his Dad has hidden from him and his Dad then admitting to killing Wellington also
Christopher through being on the spectrum fails to see..
His dads remorse for lying to him
Christopher measures his dad’s love by what?
His honesty
What’s a quote that goes with Christopher measuring his dad’s love
“because loving someone is… telling them the truth… and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.”
How many letters did Ed hide and in how many years?
43 in 2 years
What does Christopher say when he finds out that his mother is not dead and his father had lied to him about this?
“Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all this time and Father had lied about this.”
What does Christopher decide after he finds out his dad has been lying to him?
That he can no longer live with his Dad because he can’t trust him anymore
What quote goes with Christopher deciding he can’t trust his Dad
“Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me, because I don’t trust him, even though he had said ‘trust me,’ because he had told a lie about a big thing.”
What does Christopher revolve his life around?
Honesty, trust and full disclosure
What does Ed say to Christopher at the end of the novel
“Thing’s can’t go on like this … you being in the house but refusing to talk to me … You have to learn to trust me … And I don’t care how long it takes … If it’s a minute one day and two minutes the next … Because this is important.”
